If you had a free-range egg this morning, there's a chance it came from a ranch very similar to Eggcentricity in Ashford.

Like other producers around the globe, the firm is celebrating World Egg Day by throwing open its doors to reveal how Britain's eggs get from chicken to breakfast tables across the country.

The farm, roughly 8 miles from the town, has three pens with about 4,000 chickens in each.

Every day the birds are released into an enclosed field where they are left to scratch and peck, as well as take the odd dust bath.

Eggs are a staple for many Britons, and about 80% of shoppers choose to buy free-range.

Myles Thomas of the Love Free Range Eggs campaign said: “It’s great news to see that such a huge amount of people are now looking for free range eggs regularly or every time they shop.

"Free range egg producers work really hard to produce a great-tasting egg which is nutritious, safe to eat and has fantastic welfare benefits for the hens that lay them.”

“Chickens are wonderfully inquisitive animals and free range egg farmers try to encourage them to display all their natural instinctive behaviours such as scratching, pecking and dust bathing.”